The use of composite materials dates from centuries
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"This interesting monograph is devoted to the study of multi-agent, populations of biological cells and robot teams. … The main objective of the approach is to provide solutions to the problem of how dynamics of an individual agent propagates to the population dynamics. … This original monograph has a wide...
The book is focused on the developments and prospective challenging problems in the area of mind game playing (i.e. playing games that require mental skills) using Computational Intelligence (CI) methods, mainly neural networks, genetic/evolutionary programming and reinforcement learning. The majority of discussed game playing ideas were...
jQuery is a JavaScript library that helps web developers create JavaScript applications that work well in any browser. This book demonstrates how to use jQuery to reduce the amount of code you need to write and reduce the amount of testing that is required. Youll see how separation of presentation (CSS), markup (XHTML), and script (JavaScript and...
CI Techniques & Algorithms for a Variety of Medical Imaging Situations
Documents recent advances and stimulates further research
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Are you a beginning programmer just getting started in 3D graphics programming? If you?re comfortable programming in C++ and have a basic understanding of 3D math concepts, "Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition" will get you started programming 3D graphics for games using the OpenGL API. Revised to work with the latest...
This book will be of particular interest to specifiers applying the principles of the new European Standard EN 206-1 for the first time; to postgraduate researchers in mathematical modeling of degradation mechanisms; to undergraduates of engineering, architecture, and building technology; and to students of advanced concrete technology who...
The 13th edition of the classic text, Design of Concrete Structures, is completely revised using the newly released 2002 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Code.
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